vertical stabilizer


nounAeronautics.
  1. the fixed vertical surface of an aircraft empennage, to which the rudder is hinged.

  • Also called fin, vertical fin .

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vertical stabilizer

noun
  1. the US name for fin 1 (def. 3a)

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